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It´s very easy to block.. The first step is to simply just allow traffic thru certain Ports, not the ones VPN use. After that you look for the VPN "handshakes" that will identify the VPN which means that you´ll need advanced software to fool the block.
Or just have the traffic forwarded to a different port ;)
 
It's not Sky - given the way they promote things like Deadline Day, don't you think they'd love to show every game if they could?

The FA ban 3:00p.m. kick offs being shown and limit the games that can be broadcast accordingly. Sky are just protecting their position because if people stream games they don't have, they'll use the same platform to stream games they do show as well.
Any game accessible to anyone anywhere in the world is the logical conclusion to the football boom. That's why some of the richest men in the world have gotten involved in the PL. One day the oil will run out but "the football is officially going on forever".
 
We'll see when the season starts. They blocked Sky streams at the end of last season but the matches were still easily accessible on the Premier League feed via foreign channels on Sportsmania.

The issue will be when there's an SAFC Championship game on Sky at the same time as a Prem game as they blocked all the other Sky Sports channels when the Prem game was on and there aren't as many other feeds with Championship games on.
 
On BBC website. This pre-loaded KODI boxes bullshit makes me laugh, like they are to blame for it.

They are only pre-loaded for the lazy bastards who can't be arsed to do it themselves! :lol:

All my KODI installations were done by errrrrrm....me!!! :rolleyes:

Are these pre-loaded boxes sold with add-ons included? If not, how can they be prosecuted?
 
The sooner Sky/BT wise up and follow the NFL online subscription model, the sooner the majority of the problem will be eradicated. Music, Movies, and TV wised up, now its the turn of Sports.

I'm sure they'll be looking at the new ifollow set-up as a beta test.

I think this will have very little to do with Sky. I think Sky have realised that the jig is up with the ability to sell subscriptions for live events that are now freely accessible online. Look at iFollow - it takes all of the broadcasters out of the equation. Sky and BT are not selling anything to anyone there. The rights are being directly sold by the clubs to the league and then onto the internationally based supporters.

The thing to remember is, if blocking the streaming sites was realistic, why would BT and Sky not have already been doing it, seeing as they probably have two thirds of the country's broadband market between them? Why would it take a legal injunction to force them to block this stuff if it was theoretically in their favour to block it already?

The only option the likes of BT and Sky have is to start opening up their broadcasts and building their relationships with advertisers again. And part of that is going to mean Sky eventually letting go of the expensive satellite platform on Astra, and moving entirely to IP based broadcasting (Sky Q is probably paving the way for this). It is tricky for Sky as they are a broadcaster that has branched out into phone and broadband utilities. BT has done it the other way around, and used their typical monopolistic approach to gaining a foothold in the market. They might have a real shock coming if they over commit on coming contracts.

The media in general is in a state of total collapse. Major newspaper titles such as The Guardian are going down the tubes. Sony Media is in absolute crisis, and is more or less depending on the new Spiderman film to make up for some terrible losses last year (a big chunk of which was caused by insane reshoots for the terrible Ghostbusters film) and Disney are waiting to sweep them up. Music is no longer earning anyone any money outside of gigging. Major sporting events such as the British Grand Prix are starting to rebel and force the economic reality onto those who have been milking the cash cows.

Personally I think they have left it all too late. They should have opened up all of the matches across the world for pay per view and season ticket options as soon as streams started appearing 12 years ago or so. I always said that the smaller clubs would benefit the most, because then they could start really bring the cash from a much wider footprint across the world, and have the chance to get new fans from all kinds of far flung places. The English leagues could have cleaned up. Now all the apparatus is there to circumvent late to the party pay walls. Football has taken 12 years to recognise the need and is only just start trying to fulfill a demand that was being serviced by the black market long before they got their head out of the sand.
 
Where there's a will, there's a way.

This applies pretty much to everything in life, good and bad, if someone wants to do something bad enough, they'll find a way of doing/getting it. Relating it back to streams, the Pirate Bay comparison made earlier was a good one. For every 1 they shut down, 10 will pop up.

As for the 3-5pm law...

"So why are there no Saturday 3pm matches on TV?

It all started in the 1960s. Convinced by Burnley Chairman Bob Lord, Football League Chairmen joined forces to halt the airing of matches at 3pm on a Saturday. But why? Lord felt that big games being televised at that time would hurt attendances for smaller clubs, like his Burnley team.

Reasoning that people would rather watch a big game than support their local team, these Chairmen feared the potential loss of match-day revenue that could occur.

And so, based on that premise, with no real proof other than a hunch it came to pass that no match on a Saturday between 2:45 and 5:15 could be aired on TV within the UK. This has remained in place ever since, with the exception of the FA Cup final which has always been shown on a Saturday at 3pm until only recently when it was switched to 5pm in a controversial move by the FA."


With the 'smaller clubs' now having i-follow, this antiquated law seems firmly in the land of the dodo's and wooly mammoths.
 
.. I know how it works .. As as you do, do you seriously think ISP's will block VPN's ..

We´ll see how far reaching the court order is.. But let us not fool ourselves, there are whole countries out there that have blocked VPN totally so it could happen anywhere in no time at all.
 
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